St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-28
March 20.
PHASES OF LIFE.

"You are right l have invested in Duluth
rocks and expect to make money on them,
too,'' said one of the Oldest real estate dealers
of Minneapolis yesterday. 81 believe those
who sell out before the summer will all make
money, and those who hold Orwell, that &c.
ponds. You see the boom in St. Paul and
Minneapolis is solid and enduring, because it
is based on real and healthy growth In
Duluth everything depends ON the influx of
settlers in the spring: if it comes. well and
good, but IT not, out drops the bottom. was
up there the other day and it was amusing to
see the people. In the lobby of the ST. Louis
hotel one night counted sixty Minneapolis
spectators. Not bed was to be had. Tom
Skies and / slept on cot in the hall, and
Jimmy Lawrence curled up on sofa in one
OF the parlors. All the strangers were in
vestors, not settlers. And how property has
scared! man went there two years ago
and bought lot on a Superior avenue corner
for $1,000. The owner wanted him to take
the next lot for $500, but he wouldn't have it,
y short time ago he bought the same lot for
$4,000 and now wants $4,000 for the two.
j. F. Appleby, of the harvester works, two
years ago bought ninety acres for $50 an acre;
he has been offered $500 an acre and is hold
ing it for 1000. It's great up there now, but
If the boom drops, thousands will be sunk"
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An amusing repetition of the old story of a
clrc ulation lie occurred the other day in the
office of an evening paper in Minneapolis.
That paper has been squanderng considera-
bic of its space-which is limited at best
talking of its circulation, which it claimed
was over $4,000. 1t allowed the Tribune Its
own figures, 10000. and gave the sworn fig
ures of the Pioneer, l4,4OO. 1t knew the
GLOBE had more than any other Northwestern
paper, and accordingly estimated it at
$4,000. These figures it printed. and the re-
suit was that in rushed Tribune authority in
towering rage
s.Gr CoD .cl,o
about? Don't you see what you've done? You
give our claim for the Tribune of 10000, and
of course, everybody knows we'd claim
more'n we had Then you estimate the
GLOBE at $4,000, and, of course, everybody
knows you would never allow em that much
II you didn't know they had a darn sight
more! You change that right Off Put the
GLOBE at 13,000!'
This was done. To add to the situation this
evening paper has filed its answer in a libel
suit, in which it swallows its own words, and
says other papers in the Twin Cities have rs
large a circulation as it has, when the same
day it printed its own claim of the largest.
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When man tries to make a success at two
things he generally makes failure of one or
both of them. This was demonstrated yes
terday when man acting as his own attor-
ney, filed complaint in the district court,
reading as follows:
Plaintiff herein complains of the defendants
herein and makes the following statements of
facts, to-viz:
That l, A. Hagebaeck. plaintiff in the above &C.
ton, am citizen of Minneapolis, state of Mime
sofa, and of the United States of America in good
standing. and member of the Westminster Pres
byterian church. in this city, in good standing;
that at no time in any court of the United States
or in any part thereof u decision or judgment was
had or made against me by which my char
atcer was in any way blamed or stained. .
That the plaintiff, am doing business on my own
account in this city # Minneapolis as .pract cal
photographer, ana have been doing business en-
my own ucct u in the United States for over
twenty years. and therefore am well acquainted
with in taking orders, and have served as an cx-
pert In several cases in the courts of the United
States. would add that am very particular in
having "a fair and u ndisputed understanding with
my Gust omers beforehand i'll verbal or written
agreements; in this way nave so far met with
vtri tile difficulties, comparatively to the time
engaged in business and in those few ca ,es in
which in justice and honor to myself, was forced
to lay my petitions before our high and honorabl lie